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Subject: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
Matches Found: 21

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BATHROOM HOLDS ITS BREATH, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Although there is never an end
Last Line: Rozsa hasn't washed karl's towel in weeks
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Budapest, Hungary; Rooms


BUDAPEST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm above the danube in a rented room
Last Line: I'm above the danube in a rented room
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary


BUDAPEST, 1945, by GYULA ILLYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It feels good to rest among the rubble
Last Line: Like the birds and the children!
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Death; Soldiers


BUDAPEST, MARCH 1928: THE GENIUS OF FRIENDSHIP, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was not so much terror then
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Photography & Photographers; City & Town Life


CONFESSION OF LOVE TO BUDAPEST, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How much trash is whirled by the wind on the streets
Last Line: Even if I betray you, I'll be with you
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Confessions


DEJA VU (2), by CHRISTINE MCNEILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Budapest is like a stage-set
Last Line: And the woman couldn't move on
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Deja Vu


FAREWELL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against white buda's walls a vine
Last Line: "so melts my heart in thine, my dear"
Subject(s): "budapest, Hungary;farewell;" Parting


HALL, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is where she first hears him
Last Line: And tucked inside their gizzards
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Grief


IN THE BEDROOM, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sheets are linen
Last Line: To the creaking on either side of the door
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Rooms


IN THE KITCHEN, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bare pipes are listening
Last Line: Or sand, into the corners of the house
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Cooking And Cooks; Food And Eating


LEAVING BUDAPEST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dove above the danube
Last Line: The length of his country's history
Subject(s): Absence; Budapest, Hungary; Farewell


MORNING REPORT FROM YOUR ROOM IN BUDAPEST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The warning flutes of owls wake you
Last Line: You left with a thirst
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Childhood Memories; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


OLD WOMAN'S ROOM, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is empty again; she's always a-bustle
Last Line: With tortoiseshell and her army of bobby pins
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Old Age


PANTRY, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is the boy's hideaway
Last Line: Bedtime nightly drags him out
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Poverty; Winter


PARLOR IS PUBLIC, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the old woman comes in
Last Line: And blacken your tastebuds
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Public Health


PARLOR WINDOW, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is agape-old, toothless mouth
Last Line: In their long, crooked eyes
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Old Age


ROZSA IN THE PARLOR, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pedal of the sewing machine
Last Line: Up a stairway of tilting and rolling steps
Subject(s): Babies; Budapest, Hungary; Mothers


TEST: STAYING THE NIGHT IN THE DOHANYI SYNAGOGUE, BUDAPEST, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ther are still so many things
Last Line: I would not change my name
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Night; Synagogues


THE LAST OF THE ARPADS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In buda's lofty castle towers in the chapel of saint john
Last Line: Is crushed beneath the ruins of the arpad's ancient throne
Subject(s): "budapest, Hungary;


TOURIST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He strolls down vaci street
Last Line: That sports a communist donald duck
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Tourists; Travel


YOUNG GIRL FROM BUDAPEST, by HENRI MICHAUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the mild mist of a young girl's breath
Last Line: You settle back in such a way that at this moment you are %no more
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Girls